ALEXANDER MITCHELL, THE FAMOUS BLIND 

 ENGINEER OF BELFAST. 



By Francis Joseph Bigger, M.R.I. A. 



(Abstract.) 



The earliest account I can find of the Mitchell family is in an 

 old quarto Bible, where it is written that George Mitchell was 

 born in November, 171 1, in Edinburgh, and landed in Ireland in 

 1733, settled in Dublin, and married Mary Wasson in 1742. She 

 was the grand-daughter of Brice Blair, Presbyterian Minister, who 



